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ahíram fireplace, specifically for ceremonial purpose
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #197 | revised Mar 03 2014
ahíram • N • fireplace, specifically for ceremonial purpose
Literally: 'burning place'
Derivation: | áha-raam |
burn-place |
Derivatives (3)
tuyvukmâam_va'ahíram "name of a fireplace near Orleans"
vitkirivâaram_mu'ahíram "name of a fireplace near Orleans"
a'ithram'ahíram "name of a fire place near Orleans"
Source: WB 39.1, p.315; JPH ethno ?:???
Note: Locative is ahíramak.
- xás u'êechip xás ahíramak úyuunkurih pamuxvâah. Then he picked him up and held his head in the fireplace. [Reference: KT 125b.14]
See áah1 'to handle fire' See áah2 'fire'
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xás u-'êechip xás ahíram-ak ú-yuunkuri pa-mu-xváa achvúun atipimámvaan mu-xvâa u-kimfíruraa-nik then 3s(>3)-pick.up then fireplace-Locative 3s(>3)-put.(long.object).in.fire the-3sPOSS-head hookbill.salmon buzzard 3sPOSS-head 3s(>3)-burn.off.(hair)-ANC And he picked him up and held his head in the fireplace, Hookbill burnt Buzzard's hair off. Source: Yaas, "How Buzzard Became Bald" (JPH_KT-01b) | read full textkári xás uum u-'áasish ahinám-tiimich then then 3.SG 3s(>3)-lie.down fireplace-very.edge And she went to bed, at the edge of the fire. Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full textxás ú-p-aanik xasík ahíram u-kyâa-vish then 3s(>3)-say-ANC then.(future) fireplace 3s(>3)-make-FUT He said, "(The priest) will build a fire." Source: Chester Pepper, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-47) | read full textkári xás púyava máruk t-u-vâaram ahíram then then you.see uphill PERF-3s(>3)-go fireplace And so he went uphill to the fireplaces. Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-48) | read full textkári xás ahinám-tiich vúra u-krêe-nik amtápnihich then then fireplace-very.edge Intensive 3s(>3)-live-ANC ashy.place And (one of them, named kunâach'aa) sat at the edge of the fireplace, in the ashes. Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full textxás áachip ahíram-hi-tih then middle fireplace-DENOM-DUR And there was a fireplace in the center. Source: Julia Starritt, "The Living-house" (WB_KL-77) | read full textmáruk ahíram t-u-vâaram uphill fireplace PERF-3s(>3)-go He went uphill to the fireplaces. Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text